Monday, October 31, 2016

A high-ranking FBI official talked of La Cosa Clinton
Sunday — as he placed the Democratic political family in the same category
as the Gambinos, Colombos and Lucheses.

“The Clintons, that’s a crime family,”declared former New York FBI chief James Kallstrom
in a radio interview.

“It’s
like organized crime, basically. The Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.”

He
echoed many of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s talking points as
he described Clintons as dishonest, greedy and scheming, during the
interview with supermarket billionaire John Catsimatidis on AM970.

“It’s
just outrageous how Hillary Clinton sold her office for money,” said Kallstrom
who has long been a critic of the Clintons and President Obama.

“And
she’s a pathological liar, and she’s always been a liar.
And God forbid if we put someone like that in the White House.”

In
another interview Sunday, Kallstrom said that the handling of the probe into
Clinton’s emails by FBI Director James Comey was sowing dischord among rank and
file FBI agents.

For months now, we’ve
been told that Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails were permanently erased
and destroyed beyond recovery. But newly released FBI notes strongly suggest
they still exist in several locations — and they could be recovered, if only
someone would impanel a grand jury and seize them.

In a May interview
with FBI agents, an executive with the Denver contractor that maintained
Clinton’s private server revealed that an underling didn’t bleach-clean all her
subpoenaed emails, just ones he stored in a data file he used to transfer the
emails from the server to Clinton’s aides, who in turn sorted them for delivery
to Congress.

The Platte River
Networks executive, whose name was redacted from the interview report, said PRN
tech Paul Combetta “created a ‘vehicle’ to transfer email files from the live
mailboxes of [Clinton Executive Services Corp.] email accounts [and] then later
used BleachBit software to shred the ‘vehicle,’ but the email content still
existed in the live email accounts.”

Unless one of
Clinton’s aides had the capability to log in to the PRN server as an
administrator and remove a mailbox, her archived mailboxes more than likely
still reside somewhere in that system. And they may also materialize on an
internal “shared drive” that PRN created to control access to the Clinton email
accounts among PRN employees. PRN has been under FBI order to preserve all
emails and other evidence since the start of its investigation last year.

Clinton’s missing
“personal” emails may also be captured on a Google server. According to FBI
notes, Combetta “transferred all of the Clinton email content to a personal
Google email address he created.” Only the FBI never subpoenaed Google to find
out.

The FBI documents
also reveal that Hillary’s server was mirrored on a cloud server in
Pennsylvania maintained by Datto Inc., a tech firm that performs cloud-to-cloud
data protection.

When PRN contracted
with Datto, it requested that Hillary’s server be backed up locally and
privately. But the techs forgot to order the private node, and they sent the
server backup data “remotely to Datto’s secure cloud and not to a local private
node.” The FBI never subpoenaed Datto’s server, either.

Then there’s the
laptop Combetta loaded with the Clinton email archive and allegedly shipped
back to a Clinton aide in Washington, who claims it got “lost” in the mail. Not
so fast: The latest FBI document dump includes a series of interviews with an
unidentified former “special assistant” to Clinton at the State Department who
said the elusive Apple MacBook laptop was actually “shipped to the Clinton
Foundation in New York City.”

But in a June
follow-up interview, FBI agents inexplicably left it up to this critical
witness to “inquire about the shipment” with the foundation’s mailroom manager,
who works in Rockefeller Center. The FBI still does not have the laptop in its
possession.

It turns out that
investigators also know the whereabouts of the original Apple server Clinton
used in her first two months in office. Recovering that equipment is critical
because it contains a mass of unseen emails from Jan. 21, 2009, to March 18,
2009 — a critical period in Clinton’s tenure at State. Witnesses say the
equipment was not discarded, as first believed, but “repurposed” as a “work
station” used by staff in Clinton’s Chappaqua residence.

Yet the FBI says it
“was unable to obtain the original Apple server for a forensic review.” Instead
of seizing it, the agency has taken Clinton’s aides’ and lawyers’ word that the
server’s bereft of relevant emails.

In fact, the agency confesses on Page 27 of
its 47-page investigative case summary that it failed to recover other
equipment and data as well: “The FBI’s inability to recover all server
equipment and the lack of complete server log data for the relevant time period
limited the FBI’s forensic analysis of the server systems. As a result, FBI
cyber analysis relied, in large part, on witness statements.”

Congressional
investigators say FBI Director James Comey in his year-long “investigation”
didn’t even bother to send agents to search Clinton’s homes in Chappaqua or
Washington, DC. Nor did he dispatch them to the offices of the Clinton
Foundation or Clinton Executive Services Corp. in New York City.

“The Clinton
residences and other locations should have been treated like any other criminal
investigation — with federal grand jury subpoenas or search warrants issued by
judges and served in the middle of the night,” said veteran FBI special agent
Michael M. Biasello, who worked criminal cases out of New York and other field
offices for 27 years.

“Never — I repeat,
never — in my career have I or any FBI agent known to me investigated a
criminal case without the use of a federal grand jury, grand jury subpoenas or
search warrants,” he said. “It’s disgraceful they weren’t used in this case.”

The most damning
evidence against Clinton may never have been actually destroyed. It was simply
left untouched by the FBI.

Paul Sperry, a former
DC bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily and Hoover Institution media fellow,
is author of “Infiltration.” Sperry@SperryFiles.com

Utterly horrible is how a homeless black woman was attacked
by hateful Hillary supporters for exercising her freedom of speech, calling her
concerns about Americans losing jobs to illegal immigrants and her support for
the candidate of her choice, Donald Trump, “hate speech.” This attack on a
defenseless homeless black woman who went into a fetal position and lay still
on the sidewalk to protect herself from the hateful mob is disgusting and made me sick to my stomach.

It
appears there may be more to why Hillary Clinton’s campaign vice-chair has been
absent from the trail of late.Following
the FBI’s bombshell discovery of thousands
of new documents deemed pertinent to their criminal investigation of Clinton’s
email server, two new reports are raising serious questions
about whether her longtime aide, Huma Abedin, perjured herself.

The Daily Beast is reporting that these
new documents appear to directly contradict testimony Abedin gave in a
court-ordered deposition regarding Clinton’s server:

But the new information that the FBI found
State Department-related email on her home laptop also calls into question
whether Abedin in fact turned over all of the devices she used to send and
receive email while working at State. On June 28, 2016, Abedin said under oath
in a sworn deposition that she looked for all devices that she thought
contained government work on them so the records could be given to the State
Department. (These records were subsequently reviewed by the FBI.)

And
as the Associated Press also reports, Abedin signed a State Department document attesting under penalty of
perjury that she did not retain any “classified or administratively controlled
documents and materials” upon her departure from Foggy Bottom:

Abedin's testimony in the civil suit was
complicated by a routine State Department document she signed under penalty of
perjury in February 2013. She promised she would "turn over all classified
or administratively controlled documents and materials" before she left
her government job, and promised that she was not retaining copies,
"including any diaries, memorandums of conversation or other documents of
a personal nature." The document required her to give back all
"unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of
the government acquired by me while in the employ of the department."

As
the Daily Beast notes in its report, “Abedin is not simply a close aide, she’s
a critical member of Hillary Clinton’s tiny inner circle that protects and — at
times — enables the deeply flawed and secretive Democratic nominee.”

This
development surrounding someone who would certainly inhabit a West Wing office
were Clinton to win is a troubling reminder of the above-the-law mentality
Clinton and her inner circle operate with when they are in positions of power.

Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton on the campaign’s plane on
Friday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials said
Friday that the new emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a
private email server were discovered after the F.B.I.
seized electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton,
and her husband, Anthony D. Weiner.

The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that
Mr. Weiner sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told
Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case
— one federal official said they numbered in the thousands — potentially
reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering
a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.

In
a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that emails
had surfaced in an unrelated case, and that they “appear to be pertinent to the
investigation.”

Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was taking steps to “determine
whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their
importance to our investigation.” He said he did not know how long it would
take to review the emails, or whether the new information was significant.

Mr. Trump has fallen behind Mrs. Clinton in most national
polls and in many key states. Polls have been tightening in recent days,
however, amid the daily release of hacked Clinton campaign emails published by WikiLeaks.

Mr. Trump seized on the F.B.I. action on Friday at a
rally in New Hampshire. To cheers of “lock her up” from his supporters, Mr.
Trump said: “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen
before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”

After deriding the F.B.I. for weeks as inept and corrupt,
Mr. Trump went on to praise the law enforcement agency.

“I have great respect for the fact that the F.B.I. and
the D.O.J. are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake
that they made,” Mr. Trump said, referring also to the Department of Justice.
“This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully
understand. It is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.”

The Clinton campaign called on Mr. Comey to provide
information beyond what was put forth in the letter. of Form

“Director Comey’s
letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we
have no idea what those emails are and the director himself notes they may not
even be significant,” said John D. Podesta, chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s
campaign.

He added: “It is extraordinary that we would see
something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.”

Mrs. Clinton, arriving Friday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
waved at members of the media gathered on the tarmac but ignored shouted
questions.

“The F.B.I.’s decision to reopen their criminal
investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before
the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” Reince Priebus, the
Republican committee chairman, said in a statement. “This stunning development
raises serious questions about what records may not have been turned over and why,
and whether they show intent to violate the law.”

In September, Mr.
Comey announced that the F.B.I. had closed the investigation after
determining that no one should face criminal charges. But Mr. Comey did
criticize Mrs. Clinton and her aides for what he termed the “extremely
careless” handling of sensitive information.

The
FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
server while secretary of state after discovering new emails, in a stunning
turn of events just days before the presidential election.

FBI
Director James Comey wrote in a letter to top members of Congress Friday that
the bureau has “learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent
to the investigation.”

Comey
did not detail those emails, saying only that they surfaced “in connection with
an unrelated case.”

He
told lawmakers the investigative team briefed him on the information a day
earlier, “and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps
designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether
they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to
our investigation.”

He
said the FBI could not yet assess whether the new material is significant and
he could not predict how long it will take to complete “this additional
work.”

The
move comes after Comey and the Justice Department decided in July not to pursue
charges over Clinton's email practices, saying at the time that the
investigation was finished.

Comey
has since come under criticism from Donald Trump, lawmakers and others who
claim the investigation downplayed the mishandling of classified information
during Clinton's tenure.

Trump,
speaking to cheering supporters Friday afternoon in Manchester, N.H., praised
the FBI for having the “courage” to “right the horrible mistake that they made”
– saying he hopes that is “corrected.”

“Hillary
Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before,” Trump said. “We
must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”

In
a nod to the significance of the FBI’s announcement, Trump quipped: “The rest
of my speech is going to be so boring.”

Other
GOP lawmakers also weighed in.

“The
FBI’s decision to reopen its investigation into Secretary Clinton reinforces
what the House Judiciary Committee has been saying for months: the more we
learn about Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server, the clearer it
becomes that she and her associates committed wrongdoing and jeopardized
national security," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte,
R-Va., said in a statement.

“Now
that the FBI has reopened the matter, it must conduct the investigation with
impartiality and thoroughness. The American people deserve no less and no one
should be above the law.”

Republican
National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said the discovery must be “serious”
for the bureau to investigate this close to the election.

Clinton
did not respond to questions from reporters about the development as she landed
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The
development comes 11 days before the general election, and is the latest
shockwave to hit the race. Clinton had been gaining in the polls over Trump in
the wake of the release of footage showing Trump talking about groping women
and subsequent allegations of sexual assault and harassment against him.

However,
daily revelations from hacked Clinton campaign emails obtained by WikiLeaks
have become a headache for the Democrat's campaign. The resumption of the FBI
probe poses a potentially bigger problem.

Ron
Hosko, former assistant director of the FBI, told Fox News in a telephone
interview that retired FBI officials were "livid" at Comey over the
fact that charges were not brought against Clinton in round one of the
investigation.

"He
lit her on fire and then walked away," Hosko said of Comey holding a news
conference laying out Clinton's mishandling of classified information but then
not pressing criminal charges.

Hosko
said he still defends Comey for not pressing charges because the FBI always has
to make a decision "based on what they have" at the time. Hosko said
he thinks agents were probing a separate matter and found emails that made them
say, "Oh my God look at what we have."

In
an election season that has been full of surprises, let’s hope the electorate
understands that there is at least one thing of which it can be certain: A
Hillary Clinton presidency will be built, from the ground up, on self-dealing,
crony favors, and an utter disregard for the law.

This
isn’t a guess. It is spelled out, in black and white, in the latest bombshell
revelation from WikiLeaks.

It
comes in the form of a memo written in 2011 by longtime Clinton errand boy Doug
Band, who for years worked simultaneously at the Clinton Foundation and at the
head of his lucrative consulting business, Teneo.

It
is astonishingly detailed proof that the Clintons do not draw any lines between
their “charitable” work, their political activity, their government jobs or
(and most important) their personal enrichment.

Every
other American is expected to keep these pursuits separate, as required by tax
law, anticorruption law and campaign-finance law. For the Clintons, it is all
one and the same—the rules be damned.

Thursday, October 27, 2016

According to a
damning new report from Fox News, a defense contractor seeking approval from
Hillary Clinton’s State Department for billions in foreign arms sales hired a
trio of lobbyists who had raised funds for her 2008 presidential campaign (and
would later for her 2016 campaign). Among them was Heather Podesta, then-sister
in law to Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta, who was a Senior Adviser to
the State Department at the time.

As lobbying records
indicate, these Clinton, Inc. lobbyists, who had little experience with foreign
arms deals previously, raked in hundreds of thousands in fees for “engag[ing]
the Executive Branch on the economic benefits of foreign military sales,” were
quickly able to secure approval for $26 billion in contracts for foreign sales
all before Clinton left office, and their representation was no longer needed.

Podesta Relative
Earned Six-Figure Fees Lobbying Clinton's State Dept. During His Tenure There

By James Rosen

October 27, 2016

EXCLUSIVE: Amid the
tumult of the 2016 presidential campaign, John Podesta is best known as Hillary
Clinton’s campaign chairman and the individual from whose private account
WikiLeaks is presently publishing some 50,000 hacked emails.

Released in daily
batches, these documents have laid bare the inner workings and tensions of the
Clinton campaign in an unprecedented way, while also offering insights into the
operations of the Clinton Foundation and the State Department in the years when
Clinton, now the Democratic presidential nominee, served as secretary of state.

At that time, when
Clinton was traveling to a record number of foreign countries, Podesta, a
former White House chief of staff under President Clinton, held dual titles at
the State Department: as a senior advisor – entitled to an annual salary of
$130,000 never paid him, the department maintains – and as a member of a
prestigious foreign policy advisory board Secretary Clinton created. Records
obtained from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management show Podesta’s tenure at
State extended from Sept. 25, 2011 to Jan. 4, 2014.

For several months in
2012, Clinton’s final year as secretary of state, Raytheon, the leading defense
contractor, hired Podesta’s sister-in-law, Heather Podesta, as a lobbyist,
federal records show.

Raytheon was looking
to enlarge its share of foreign military sales – transfers of advanced weapons
systems to other countries that are reviewed and approved by the Department of
State, then implemented by the Department of Defense – and was beefing up its
lobbying operation to accomplish that goal before Secretary Clinton left office.

On the LD-2 lobbying
disclosure form completed by her company, Heather Podesta + Partners, LLC, in
July 2012, the veteran lawyer and Democratic fundraiser listed in the space
provided for a description of her lobbying activities, “Engaged the Executive Branch
on the economic benefits of foreign military sales.” In the space requesting
the specific locales of her lobbying, Ms. Podesta listed the White House and
the State Department.

At the same time,
Raytheon retained two other lobbyists, John Merrigan and Matt Bernstein, both
associated with the powerhouse D.C. law firm DLA Piper. All three of these
lobbyists, including Ms. Podesta, were major donors or bundlers to Hillary
Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 campaigns. Federal records show they have raised
hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton’s campaigns and earned hundreds of
thousands of dollars lobbying her State Department.

In the final three
quarters of 2012, DLA Piper earned some $360,000 in lobbying fees from
Raytheon, courting the State Department and other agencies, while Ms. Podesta,
within that same time frame, received $100,000 from Raytheon for the same
purpose.

The gambit appears to
have worked: Records maintained by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the
arm of the Defense Department that coordinates the transfers of weapons systems
once they have received State’s approval, show Raytheon as a prime contractor
in at least seventeen foreign military sales in 2012, worth an estimated total
of $26 billion. Of those contracts, three with the Gulf nation of Qatar – for
missile defense, Apache attack helicopters and other materiel – accounted for
$19 billion.

An email from a
Clinton Foundation official released earlier this month, in the sixth of
Wikileaks’ postings of John Podesta’s emails, revealed that in 2011, the Qatari
government had pledged $1 million to the foundation to help former President
Clinton celebrate his birthday. In return, the email said, the Qataris sought a
“five-minute” audience with Mr. Clinton.

The individual at the
State Department who was statutorily entrusted to approve foreign military
sales was Andrew Shapiro, the assistant secretary of state for political and
military affairs. Prior to his nomination to that job, Shapiro had served as
Clinton’s national security adviser in her Senate office. Today, Shapiro is a
partner in a Washington consulting firm whose other co-founders include
Philippe Reines, Clinton’s longtime press aide.

After Clinton stepped
down as secretary of state in February 2013, Raytheon discontinued the services
of Heather Podesta + Partners, and ceased its use of DLA Piper at State.

While experts do not
believe any laws were broken, the affair illustrates how Washington worked in the
first Obama term, and particularly at the Clinton State Department. The
Raytheon operation bears some similarity to a pop-up store that materializes to
serve a seasonal need, such as Halloween candy or July Fourth fireworks, then
vanishes once that need has been met.

“I think this is as
close an example of pay-to-play as we’ve seen,” said Raj Shah, deputy
communications director at the Republican National Committee. “And that's why
[Raytheon] made these hires [of Heather Podesta, Merrigan and Bernstein]. …
Their experience was getting access to Hillary Clinton and raising money for
her.”

“The ultimate
responsibility, of course, rests on the Cabinet official. In this case, it'd be
the secretary of state,” said State Department spokesman John Kirby at a briefing
with reporters Wednesday. “But we do it in close coordination with DOD. … The
only considerations that are factored into the foreign military sales program
is the furtherance of foreign policy objectives of the United States of America
and not the efforts by external groups to lobby, as you say, or to influence
that decision.”

Josh Schwerin, a
spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told Fox News that the nominee “never took
action as secretary of state because of any donations and any suggestion to the
contrary is false.”

In a statement,
Raytheon said its lobbying practices and policies are fully disclosed and
comply with all federal, state and local laws. DLA Piper did not respond to a
request for comment. And Heather Podesta sent Fox News a one-sentence email
saying: “I never lobbied the Secretary or John Podesta on this matter.”

Donald Trump called for a “new deal for black America” in
a Wednesday afternoon address, as he works to bridge the gap he faces with the
crucial voting bloc less than two weeks from Election Day.

Speaking in Charlotte, N.C., the GOP nominee criticized
years of Democratic rule for leaving black America behind, and outlined his
plan to help.

My “deal is grounded in three promises: safe communities,
great education, and high-paying jobs,” Trump said.

“Whether you vote for me or not, I will be your greatest
champion. We live in a very divided country and I will be your greatest
champion.”

Trump called on voters to repudiate Hillary Clinton and
the Democrats in favor of change.

“American politics is caught in a time loop, we keep
electing the same people over and over and over,” he said.

“Every day, I’m out on the trail proposing fresh
solutions and new thinking. And every day, the same people, getting rich off
our broken system, say we can’t change and we can’t try anything new, because
it’s not good for them.”

“I have a message for all the doubters in Washington:
America’s future belongs to the dreamers, not the cynics and not the
critics," he said.

“African-American citizens have sacrificed so much for
our nation. They fought and died in every war since the Revolution and from the
pews and the picket lines, they’ve lifted up the conscience of our country in
the long march for civil rights. Yet too many African-Americans have been left
behind.”

Trump called for incentives to move companies into
blighted neighborhoods to bolster employment, help African-Americans get better
access to credit and push cities to declare “blighted communities” disaster
areas to help rebuild infrastructure.

He also said he'd support increasing the number of police
officers in such areas, connecting a lack of officers to a rise in murder rate
in major cities.

But while Trump’s call focused on removing “gang-members
and criminal cartels,” he blamed Clinton for promoting a "war on police.”
He did not mention the accusations of police brutality by minorities who feel
that they are disproportionately targeted.

It’s not the first time Trump has made a direct appeal to
black voters -- overtures first appeared in scripted speeches in the late
summer.

How Teneo Hit Up John Podesta On Behalf Of A Client,
Foundation Donor, And Paid Speaking Sponsor

In February 2014, Senior Managing Director Of The Teneo
Group, Orson Porter, Attempted To Set Up A Meeting Between BHP Billiton CEO
Andrew Mackenzie And Then- White House Counselor John Podesta.

Newly
released emails from WikiLeaks show that while John Podesta served as White
House Counselor, a senior Teneo executive was negotiating tens of millions for
Bill Clinton and padding his own bottom line, while seeking to curry Clinton
favor by getting a meeting for the CEO of one of its anchor clients, saying
he’d “really appreciate if you could see Andrew [Mackenzie, the CEO of BHP
Billiton].” Just as a simple favor.

In A 2011 “Bill
Clinton, Inc.” memoTo Clinton Foundation Auditors, Doug Band Noted That
BHP Billiton Had Donated $20,000 TO The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) In 2011, And Had Been A Client Of
Teneo’s Since Early 2011.

On June 20, 2012, Bill Clinton Was Paid $175,000 For A
Speech To BHP Billiton.

BHP,
one of the world’s largest companies, had never sent anyone to attend CGI nor
has any relationship with the Foundation. A client of Teneo’s since early 2011, Teneo
partners encouraged them to send a senior person to CGI in 2011 to begin
building a stronger relationship between BHP and the Foundation/President
Clinton.”

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Four
studies out this year show that if police are biased, it’s in favor of blacks.

By
Heather Mac Donald

FBI Director James
Comey has again defied the official White House line on policing and the Black
Lives Matter movement. The “narrative that policing is biased and violent and
unfair” is resulting in “more dead young black men,” Mr. Comey warned in an
Oct. 16 address to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San
Diego. That narrative, he added, also “threatens the future of policing.”

Mr. Comey has spoken
out before. In October 2015, after he observed that rising violent crime was
likely the result of officers backing off proactive policing, President Obama
obliquely accused the FBI director of “cherry-pick[ing] data” and “feed[ing]
political agendas.”

But as much as Mr.
Obama has tried to dismiss the violent crime increase that began after the 2014
fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the data are clear.

Last year’s 12%
increase in homicides reported to the FBI is the largest one-year homicide
increase in nearly half a century. The primary victims have been black. An
additional 900 black males were killed last year compared with the previous
year, resulting in a homicide victimization rate that is now nine times greater
for black males than for white males, according to a Guardian study. The brutality of these killings can be shocking.
Over the weekend of Sept. 16, a 15-year-old boy in Chicago was burned alive in
a dumpster.

More police are being
killed this year too. Gun murders of police officers are up 47% nationally
through Oct. 21, compared with the same period the previous year. In Chicago
gun assaults on officers are up 100%. In New York City attacks on officers are
up 23%. In the last two weeks, four California officers have been deliberately
murdered.

Gangbanger John Felix
prepared for his lethal attack on two Palm Springs officers on Oct. 8 by
setting a trap and ambushing them as they stood outside his door.

Two days
earlier, parolee Trenton Trevon Lovell shot Los Angeles Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve
Owen in the face as he investigated a burglary call.

Lovell then stood over
Sgt. Owen and fired four additional rounds into his body.

A planned
assassination of two officers on coffee break in Vallejo, Calif., on Oct. 17
failed only when the assault rifle used in the attack jammed.

In Indianapolis
on Oct. 13, police headquarters were sprayed with bullets by a car that then
fled, echoing a similar attack on Oct. 4 against the same police station.

Officers are
second-guessing their own justified use of force for fear of being labeled
racist and losing their jobs, if not their freedom.

On Oct. 5 a female officer
in Chicago was beaten unconscious by a suspect in a car crash, who repeatedly
bashed her face into the concrete and tore out chunks of her hair. She
refrained from using her gun, she said, because she didn’t want to become the
next viral video in the Black Lives Matter narrative.

The Chicago Police
Department now wants to institutionalize such dangerous second-guessing. Its
proposed guidelines for using force would require cops to consider the “impact
that even a reasonable use of force may have on those who observe” it.

A Los Angeles police
officer recently described to me his current thought process in deciding
whether to intervene in suspicious or criminal behavior.

A man high on meth was
violently accosting pedestrians around a Santa Monica bike path. The cops were
“very hesitant to arrest,” the officer said, because “we knew we would be on
YouTube before we could get back to the station.” That reluctance to make
contact intensifies when the suspect is black, he added.

The Black Lives
Matter narrative about an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is
false: Four studies published this year showed that if there is a bias in
police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites.

Officers’ use
of lethal force following an arrest for a violent felony is more than twice the
rate for white as for black arrestees, according to one study. Another study showed that officers were three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects
than unarmed whites.

We are at a crucial
juncture on law and order.

Police officers unquestionably need more hands-on
tactical training that will help them make split-second shoot-don’t shoot
decisions.

Some officers develop obnoxious attitudes toward civilians that must
be eradicated.

But as Mr. Comey said in San Diego, “Police officers are
overwhelmingly good people . . . who took exhausting, dangerous jobs because
they want to help people.”

No government agency
is more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police.

If the next administration continues to disregard that truth in favor of a false
narrative about systemic law-enforcement racism, the next four years will see
more urban violence and race riots, and more dead cops.

Ms. Mac Donald, a
fellow at the Manhattan Institute, is the author of “The War on Cops”
(Encounter Books, 2016).

About This Blog & the National Black Republican Association

Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
In 2005, she became a co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, an organization that is committed to returning African Americans to their Republican Party roots.
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